Snow Risk Spreads Further West

Tuesday will be a very cold day across many parts of Britain and Ireland with temperatures struggling to climb above freezing in many areas. East/north-easterly winds will continue to bring showers into eastern regions and as those winds tend to veer more into the east during the day so those showers will spread further west.

Temperatures this morning are widely below freezing and snow showers are continuing to feed into eastern and south-eastern districts. There is also a band of more organised snow moving into parts of northern England this morning and this continues to push south-westwards towards parts of Wales today bringing several cm's of snow in places although it will tend to break up as it heads towards the west. Further snow showers will move in off the North Sea into central and eastern counties of England and Scotland today, these showers bringing some accumulations in places, especially where they line up into bands of more persistent showers, for example across parts of Suffolk, Essex, Kent and into Sussex. This means that the best of the sunny spells will once again be across more western, south-western and north-western districts today, but even so the odd snow flurry cannot be ruled out. Temperatures will really struggle to climb above freezing, with maximums of 1°C or 2°C and a noticeable wind chill, but the far north of Scotland and western Ireland may reach 4°C or 5°C.

A hard and penetrating frost develops tonight with further snow showers moving into central and eastern regions of the UK bringing additional accumulations, but some showers will also affect parts of southwest England and central and eastern parts of Ireland. It remains bitterly cold tomorrow with many areas remaining below freezing all day and as the easterly winds strengthen so a significant wind chill will develop. The subtle change in wind direction though will mean that most of the snow showers will affect central and northern Britain from the Wash northwards along with parts of southwest England and eastern Ireland, but for central and south-eastern regions of the UK it will be a drier and brighter day.

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